Casting the Rob Ford movie

He’s Canada’s most iconic mayor, and one of the greatest rise-and-fall stories to come out of Canadian politics in a long time. It’s filled with high-drama, cut-throat politics and extraordinary controversy. We even get to see a few decent court-room speeches to rile up the audience.

The Rob Ford Story is perfect for a movie adaptation. So we put our collective heads together to determine who should play the lead roles in the soon-to-be-green-lit political drama.

Some of our readers have even suggested that famous actor Brian Dennehy portray the role of Rob Ford in a hypothetical movie adaptation. Dennehy is 74-years-old and Rob Ford is 43, but really, who looks better? We’re leaning towards Dennehy.

Rob Ford:Louie Anderson is also a top choice. Rotund, blonde, whiny voice and good with comedic timing. In fact, standing side-by-side, it would be hard to tell the two apart. We also considered Philip Seymour Hoffman, but decided that he risked bringing too much respectability to the role. We restricted ourselves to actors alive and available to be cast in the role. This eliminates the obvious favourite, Chris Farley. There was a small groundswell for John Candy, too.

But what about Farley’s brother, actor Kevin P. Farley? Or should be looking more high profile?

We should note, being “rotund” is not the only qualification.

Casting the Rob Ford Story: The Made-for-TV Movie is always a fun game to play.

Doug Ford: Maybe this is where Philip Seymour Hoffman floats in. The brains behind the operation, the man who steps in at the end to pat his brother on the back and assure him that everything will be ok. Joel Murray, of Mad Men fame, was also raised as a decent candidate. Depending on the direction we want to take this (we are, after all, considering a comedian for the lead), we could also get Ricky Gervais in to play DoFo. Think he could pull off an Etobicoke accent?